Everyone Loves a Slinky...and Other Sunday Thoughts

Pretty much I spent all of Saturday either in my bed or sitting in front of the toilet. I hate when that happens, but thankfully I have an amazing husband who stepped up to the plate and took care of everything, including me, so that I didn't have to worry about a thing. I love Aaron so much.

I was still feeling a little off today, so I stayed home from church. I re-listened to Elder Uchtdorf's conference talk, the one about us being Christ's hands, and the whole time he was speaking I kept thinking of Aaron. Aaron is such a wonderful example to me of so many of the attributes of Christ the President Uchtdof mentioned. Aaron is always quick to help out, slow to judge, and most definitely makes love an action word, instead of just something spoken or written about. I love you Aaron. And my goal is to work on being better at showing it than I am at saying it.

Aaron took both boys to church by himself AND taught the Sunday school lesson. The least he deserved was a nap. So when Ivan woke up from his, I let Aaron sleep and got up with Ivan. We played together in the living room. At one point Ivan found a slinky. I think this video is funny.



Ivan sure is getting to be so big. He's not really a baby anymore, which I guess is good, since we have another baby on the way, but I still can't believe how fast he's gotten so big. He's starting to say things now. He says Mama, Dada, no, duck, light, ball, boing boing (while he's making something bounce), and what's this? (he slurs that one together pretty badly, but you can still tell what it is.) And he makes barking noises for things he thinks are dogs (almost all furry animals) and he can make a duck noise and a monkey noise too.

We had spaghetti for dinner. Which Lincoln calls pa-sghetti. So Aaron, trying to teach him to pronounce it correctly said, "Lincoln say, Spa (small pause) ghetti." So Lincoln does, says it just perfectly, then turns to me and says, "Mom say, Pa (small pause) sghetti." Subsequent attempts from Aaron to get him to say it correctly only resulted in Lincoln trying to teach me to say it incorrectly. We had a good laugh over it.

Tonight I was feeling quite a bit better and decided that we should make one of my favorites, Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cake, for dessert. Everyone pitched in to help out, especially when it came time to lick the spoon and beaters.